Bottle-stopper attachment.



- Patented Oct. I0, |899.-

VF. Monmsou.

aoTTLE snappen ATTACHMENL y (Application ied July 22, 1899.)

(No Modal.)

UNITED ,STATES FRANCIS MORRISON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BoTTLE-si-ORPER ATTAcVH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nic. 634,697, dated October 10, 1899.

v Application filed .Tnly Z2, 1899. Serial No. 724,763. (No model.)

To .all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANCIS MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and yuseful Bottle-Stopper Attachment, of which the following is a specification. g

One object of the invention is to provide a simple, efficient, and reliable bottle-stopper attachment which may be used for measuring proper doses from the contents of the bottle and also as a means for. taking the doses.

Another object of the invention is to prevent accidental leakage of the contents of the bottle when the same is, for example, packed in a trunk or other box for transportation.

Other objects of the invention are hereinafter more fully described.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully nnderstood from the following description,taken in connection with vthe accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a bottlestopper attachment embodying features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the bottle-stopper attachment, illustrating the fact that an upward thrust is necessary for opening the valve; and Fig.l 3 is a view, partly in central section, illustrating the vinve'ntio in application to a bottle.

In the drawings, l is a receptacle, shown as of general pear-shaped form, and may be-constructed to contain an appropriate dose of the contents of the bottle 2. This receptacle l is .provided with an Vopening at each end, and at the lower end there is mounted or provided a stopper-body 3. I n what I believe to be the best embodiment of the invention there are provisions, as (shown, at the other end of the receptacle. These provisions comprise a valve 4, constructed and arranged to close an opening in the upper end of the receptacle l, and a spring 5 or its equivalent, whichholds the valve 4. in position for closing the opening in the top of the receptacle. The object of this construction yis to make it necessary to lift the valve when required,.which isa thing that isY not likely to happen accidentally.

6 is a support or back-stop fox-,the spring, and it may operate as a guide for the valve-- spindle, and it should be constructedso as not to exclude air under conditions that will be presently described.

The mode of operation of the described bottlc-stopper attachment may be explained as follows: The parts occupy normally the position shown in Fig. 3, and under these conditions the stopper-body lits the neck of the bottle 2 and closes it, and the valve 4.- is pressed by the spring 5 tightly to its seat and closes the opening in the top of the receptacle 1. Thus the contents of the bottle may not escape. As shown, the part G comprises a hood with airopenings 7. The valve l may be arranged to cover these openings,as shown in the gures. Thus the possibility of leakage is guarded against. To obtain a dose of the'medicine, the bottleis turned upside down, with the result that the receptacle l fills, as indicatedinFig. 3. The stopper-body isthen withdrawn from the bottle andthe contents of the receptacle l dischargedinto anysuitable receptacle bylift.

ing up the valve el-for example, bypassing the finger under the operating-handle 8 of the' valve, as shown in Fig. 2, and then lifting it up, thus permitting the air to enter the top of the receptacle, so that its contents will fall out. Among the many advantages of the described construction I may mention the fact that it is necessary to lift up the valve Ll, as

contradistinguished fron; pushing it down, whereby the accidental opening of this valve is guarded against, because it is very unlikely that anything could accidentally get under the operating-handle of the valve, and thus lift it, whereas it is most likely that a great many things would press down upon this hanl *y jects of my invention, 'what I-claim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bottle-stopper attach ment comprising a -receptacle open at each end and having one of its ends equipped with a stopper-body and In testimony whereof I have hereunto having lts other end equipped with a valve, signed my name in the presence of two wrt- 1o a spring arranged to press said valve toward messes.

the receptacle to normally close its corresponding opening and a handle operatively connected With lalle Val ve and adapted to open -\Vitnesses: it when pushed upward, substantially as de- WV. F. JACKSON,

scribed. DORA STERNBERGER.

FRANCIS MORRISON. 

